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I had to track down the comment since no one linked it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=45171576

Hopefully they finish stabilizing cross-platform backups through the new service and port local backups to the new format in a reasonable timeframe, although I’m not gonna hold my breath. I still think it’s completely ridiculous that this (really basic tbh) feature took so long.

In the post, they say it’s something they plan to do in the future building atop the changes they’ve made, so it’s not fixed yet.

While this is good since it provides some revenue beyond donations and also simplifies data backups, I think it’s kind of ridiculous that they still have not implemented a way to restore backups cross-platform (it’s just left as something they plan to do in the future). Like, is it really that hard to just export and import a file in a standard format?

It’s more than just mental healthcare. American society is just broken in so many ways.

I mean Japan’s political situation is kind of weird. The LDP has basically been in power forever (with super brief interruptions). It lost power recently though so we’ll see what happens I guess. IIUC tho anti-immigrant sentiment is rising (at least partly fueled by the massive waves of shitty tourists IMO), which prob isn’t a great sign based on what’s been happening in other countries.

Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.

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Plot twist: the detective is the murderer

Tbh I think disabling play services on a Samsung phone is kind of like pissing into the wind since Samsung’s privacy is so terrible, but I guess it’s better than nothing. Only one company stealing all your data instead of two lol.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t used One UI and I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, but I’m pretty sure some of those aren’t really much different on GrapheneOS (or AOSP). Brightness can be changed in the quick settings/toggles/whatever they’re called thing in the notification shade using a slider. Bluetooth autoconnects when enabled, although idk if there’s a way to get it to work on the lock screen without unlocking. There might be a setting to allow it. I personally don’t think it matters much since it’s not like I constantly turn it on/off. It also takes two taps I guess if your phone is already unlocked. IIRC the wifi/cellular thing is fixed in Android 16 QPR1 (so will be fixed in GrapheneOS soon), but I haven’t checked recently so maybe that changed.

The Google search thing is not there on stock GrapheneOS since it’s not using pixel launcher or whatever. Idk when you last used it since you mentioned the Pixel 5, so it might also just be things have changed since you last used it.

I’d be pretty much fine with the USB-C dongle solution if there were two ports, but there aren’t so you need to pick between charging and headphones, which is super annoying. Phones with headphone jacks are basically dead though now, unfortunately.

Pixel hardware is kind of a mixed bag though, yeah. Beyond the headphone jack issues, the kinda shitty processor (compared to Qualcomm) is irritating as well. Doesn’t usually cause problems, but games or even just flutter apps sometimes just run poorly. Samsung hardware with GrapheneOS would be my ideal phone probably.

The Bluetooth issue can be resolved by just permanently attaching a short USB-C dongle to your headphones (although TBF I’d also prefer a headphone jack).

I’m not really sure what you mean by everything taking more clicks than it should. Maybe it’s just because I’m used to the standard Android UI (guessing you have OneUI or whatever), but I don’t really think that’s an issue? It’s not really any different from most other Android devices I’ve used. You can also configure some things to be less secure/private (lock screen notifications come to mind), which might fix whatever it is you’re talking about.

The only negatives from the security focus IMO are maybe a bit slower performance (not really noticeable frankly) and occasionally an app not fully working because of Play Integrity, but that’s pretty rare in my experience (the main issue there for me is Google Wallet or whatever not supporting NFC, which does suck). If you install sandboxed Google Play and give it whatever permissions it needs, the device functions pretty much the same as a stock Pixel, albeit without Google’s AI gimmicks.

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I think it’s actually much harder for small artists to succeed now, even with the proliferation of stuff like social media sites and music apps. Most streaming services pay artists practically nothing, and from what I understand, touring is less profitable than it used to be because the artists are getting a smaller cut of the profit than they used to from merchandise.

Stuff like Bandcamp and Patreon help, but those platforms are pretty small compared to something like Spotify. It’s probably easier to get your name out there because of social media/Youtube, but I don’t think it usually makes up for how little money they make from listeners. This is also ignoring piracy.

Regarding Palestine, a number of groups have done stuff on stage or donated money and so on, but there don’t seem to be a ton that have written music specifically about the war. I’m guessing this is partly due to a lot of record labels supporting Israel on top of just so much other horrible shit going on in recent years. You could probably find more stuff if you looked for music by people from the countries directly involved.

Pretty much the same situation for Ukraine I think. Bands like Jinjer are vocally pro-Ukraine.

It’s much easier to find one-off songs about a specific issue than like entire albums right now AFAICT (again probably partially because of how much crap is going on). A lot of groups also seem afraid to really hammer on specific points to avoid alienating fans I think, so it’s sort of just the state of music as well IMO.

Doesn’t have to be the newest device if I understand the chart right. It does need to be relatively up-to-date (IMO it’s kind of silly to use GrapheneOS but not update it).

Disturbed’s got some good music, it’s just very different lol

It’s more like “key-me no nah wah.” The hiragana is きみのなは. Your pronunciation is basically きみのないは.

I feel attacked.

These temps don’t really seem “warm” to me. It pretty much looks like it ranges from actually cold to like moderately cool or something.

It does mention US sanctions at the end.

I may be wrong since it seemed to mostly gloss over deriving new errors, but this article gave me the impression that it’s not much different from a predefined thiserror type.